Antonia (she/her)

Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief

Antonia Langford is a freelance journalist, translator and magazine editor from Manchester. A graduate of Slavonic Studies and German from the University of Cambridge via Moscow State University, she is currently based in Tbilisi, Georgia. Her work can be found in The Guardian, The i Paper, The New European, OC Media, The Mill and more. She co-founded SINK in 2020.

Anisha (she/her)

Co-Editor

Anisha Jaya Minocha is the School of English president and student at the University of St Andrews. She is a published poet and writer, whose work has been showcased in winning competitions and anthologies. She has performed in various venues, including the Guildhall for the Peace Symposium London. Involved in various projects combining activism and creativity, she hosts workshops for the independent magazine for Northern creatives she co-edits, SINK, and Poets for Palestine, as well as hosting a regular postcolonial discussion group. She has worked as a teaching assistant in Andalucía, Spain and works as the student ambassador for the educational charity, Push. She has volunteered and worked in various roles at poetry festivals including The Poetry Society, Edinburgh Fringe and Scotland’s largest poetry festival, StAnza. Her project, “Roots,” explores the intersections between South Asian identity and ecology. It was initiated with Friends of the Earth and hosted in Manchester Museum, involving research, workshops and creative work which continued during her summer-long writing residency with environmental charity, Green and Away.

Eva (they/them)

Co-Editor and illustrator

I’m a poet and writer based in Manchester. I explore mental health, emotional inheritance, domestic abuse and both neuro and gender diversity. My particular interest is memory and its echoes, as well as symmetries of history.

A fun fact is that my mum believes I was haunted as a child; she used to see a girl in 60’s gym shorts looking at objects in my room whilst I was asleep.

I’m excited to be an editor at SINK, primarily for the selfish reason I’m a literary nerd who wants to read your work! I’m passionate about providing a space of inclusivity; uplifting Northern writers traditionally marginalised from literary institutions.

Joss (he/him)

Co-Editor

Everyone can write and everyone can create, but only the privileged among us have a platform to do so. I believe that the world would be a place of unlimited radiance if we were liberated from the constraints of capitalism at home and imperialism abroad, which serve quite consciously to preserve extant power relations by limiting the realm of human possibility to a select few. SINK is a magazine with liberatory potential, but we rely on you to hold us true to our values and our principles.

Ellen (she/her)

Co-Editor

Hi, I’m Ellen, and I’m a new member of the SINK team! Alongside studying English at York, I write poetry, and I was one of the contributors for volumes 1 and 2 of SINK as well as reading at their recent event, so I’ve seen first hand what an amazing platform the magazine is and I can’t wait to get involved. I’m also Deputy Editor of The Looking Glass Anthology, a yearly collection of work by York students. 

I am really excited to join the SINK team as it’s a great publication which works so hard to celebrate Northern artists, and to provide opportunities which are so often lacking.

Joe (he/him)

Co-Editor

Hi! I’m Joe and I live in St Helens, but I’ve also lived in Salford and Trosa, Sweden. I’m a neurodivergent creative that dabbles in a bit of everything.

SINK was the first magazine in years that I felt comfortable enough submitting my work to, something about it just clicked with me, and so I was excited to get involved when I was approached by the team.

I think it’s so important to have an outlet to express your feelings, your joy and your despair, especially if you’re neurodivergent experiencing life from a different perspective.

Apart from SINK, I work as a social media & marketing manager for an engineering company and I enjoy immersing myself in nature, listening to music, watching documentaries and learning Swedish.